modern matriarchy
From indigenous cultures — who’ve tended to operate on a paradigm of cooperative collectivism that’s deeply entwined with their relationship to nature — to the African Ubuntu philosophy that emphasizes communal values, empathy, shared humanity, and the foundational belief that individuals exist in a web of relationships, there are countless... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Today, while the nuclear family is no longer hegemonic, it still remains a default expectation in many places, and yet there are so many other forms of bonding, mutual support, and solidarity that are neglected as a result. I believe, for instance, that a gathering of women can create emerging epistemic and emancipatory properties that are
... See moreJonathan Rowson • Witch Envy
Woolf then speaks of the patriotism that has long inspired men to fight wars. But she says, “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country, As a woman my country is the whole world.”
Substack • It's Time We Stop Asking Warlords How to Prevent War. And Start Asking Women.
The Witch is not easy to define or categorise. She’s an idea, a figure, a myth, an archetype, and a reality with her own transgressive epistemology. She thereby serves to shift perception and understanding, or at least invites such shifts, which many believe are essential today as ways to get out of our collective stuckness, and escape our ‘solipsi
... See moreJonathan Rowson • Witch Envy
Most of her treatise on how to prevent war centers on dismantling this patriarchal hierarchy. She says patriarchy and militarism are one in the same- to fight one we must fight the other. War is patriarchal by design. To end war, we must tackle patriarchy.
Substack • It's Time We Stop Asking Warlords How to Prevent War. And Start Asking Women.
these are matriarchal cultures with deep respect for what we would call feminine values and qualities; while zero-sum thinking is inherently more masculine in its mighty, competitive, winner-take-all mindset.
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
The underlying problem is not men as a sex. The root of the problem lies in a social system in which the power of the Blade is idealized --in which both men and women are taught to equate true masculinity with violence and dominance and to see men who do not conform to this idea as too soft or effeminate.”